David Jolly's 5-Year Comedy and Sobriety Experiment!

Speaker 1 Welcome to Mick Unplugged, where we ignite potential and fuel purpose. Get ready for raw insights, bold moves, and game-changing conversations.
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Speaker 1 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Mick Unplugged. And today,

Speaker 1 we have a guest that is a comedic genius who has an unfiltered, solid humor and a magnetic stage presence that has been lighting up the comedy scene worldwide.

Speaker 1 Known for his quick wit and a viral hashtag that we're definitely going to get into in a moment, he's become a standout performer on the renowned live podcast Kill Tony and a regular at the comedy club closest to you.

Speaker 1 Get ready for a real and deep conversation with the hilarious, the unapologetic, the unstoppable my uncle. Mr.
David Jolly. Uncle Dave, how you doing today, brother? Mama, we made it.
We sure did.

Speaker 1 We sure did. Hey, Uncle Dave, we're just going to give them the cookout conversation.

Speaker 1 Hey, David, you can just say David. That's cool.

Speaker 1 David,

Speaker 1 giving them the cookout conversation. For sure.

Speaker 1 They ain't ready for this one.

Speaker 1 They're going to have to get it.

Speaker 1 Let's go. Let's go.
So, for the world, y'all got to understand my Uncle David, man.

Speaker 1 Like, when I talk about a true comedic genius, I really mean that by every stretch of the imagination because Uncle David, you know this just like I know. There's a lot of funny people out there.

Speaker 1 Just daily. You make me feel old.
You are old. I ain't number 43, motherfucker.
You look older than me.

Speaker 1 I am 22.

Speaker 1 What's 24?

Speaker 1 Little brother Dave.

Speaker 1 Just David. So.

Speaker 1 There's a thing. There's a lot of people that can be funny, right? Like we talk about the cookout.

Speaker 1 Everybody has that funny uncle that can tell a good joke have everybody laughing but there is a big difference when you got to get on stage and people expect you to be funny and expect you to tear their stomach up man how did you master that i just it ain't no plan b you know what i mean like people say like oh i want to do this like i don't know the last time i did nothing regular you know like if i'm dating somebody she know hey i'm really dating comedy you're gonna be here for a minute but i mean how long you gonna really last because like every single single day I go do comedy, you know?

Speaker 1 Like I got here early tonight because I just want to see the city of DC and I'm going to go find somewhere to get up at tonight, you know?

Speaker 1 People want to do stuff, but then some people want to dedicate the rest of their lives to it. You know what I mean? Can't make it.
You can't be halfway in and halfway out.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, man, I got a show. I got this big opportunity for you.
And you're like, well, I got to go to the movies with my lady. Ain't no girlfriend no more.

Speaker 1 Ain't no way that not if you want to do it for real all of that is out the door the only thing you married to is comedy see yep and here's what i learned from you and this is something you taught me man and i mean this genuinely

Speaker 1 a lot of people wait for an opportunity or they wait for opportunity to knock what david jolly said is damn it i am the opportunity And you, you make everything happen because to your point, there is no plan B.

Speaker 1 You are the opportunity, man. And like, how do you help other people understand that? Because most people don't get it.

Speaker 1 They sit around and wait for somebody to give them something or wait for that phone call.

Speaker 1 It's 2024, 2025. Those phones don't ring like that no more.
I mean, if you, if I'm cool with you, I'm going to cuss you out about it.

Speaker 1 Understand, they don't understand being nice no more. Like, if I can't talk to you like a man and we talk to each other like that, then you're just like an associate.

Speaker 1 If I message you, then, hey, man, I want to see you win, like, or let's just leave each other alone. Yep.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Like, because you can't tell me that you want to do something and then you're going to sit and complain about what could happen. Are we either going to make a solution for it or you can

Speaker 1 lay in your own misery? Absolutely. You got to find a solution or, you know, like somebody told me when I first started doing comedy, my boy Ross McCoy, I was like, so what I do after this?

Speaker 1 He was like. you bomb a lot.
You're going to go to every mic, no matter what it feels like. You're just going to keep going.

Speaker 1 You know, just keep like, people say they go up a lot but if you is like you have no idea you know you know

Speaker 1 like like literally living and live this that's it ain't ain't nothing else you know yep yeah

Speaker 1 i mean i just keep going just you just got to keep going especially when they look crazy that means something good come around the corner And that's the essence of life, too, not even just in the comedy world, but just in life.

Speaker 1 I tell people all the time, man, like there's success just on the other side.

Speaker 1 Where people fail is they just stop right like woe was me the world is coming the world is crashing on everybody man like everybody going through something

Speaker 1 it's those that keep going that see success happen and nobody want to hear your misery your sad sob story like like when i ended up in austin like you know cam called me when he first moved there and like this was before kill tony this was before all of that like he called me And I was like, man, how you liking it?

Speaker 1 And then like, he was like, man, I love it out here. Man, I'm murdering these people.
Like, I'm really destroying out here. So, I was like, Man, let me check this out.

Speaker 1 So, it was my birthday was like the next week. So, I was like, I'm going to get a flight out there.
He was like, Man, you ain't coming out here. So, I caught a flight, got there that Saturday.

Speaker 1 I did an open mic that Sunday for comedy mothership, and I got invited back. So, at that point, I was like, Oh, this is the way in.

Speaker 1 At point right then, I was like, This is this is my opportunity right here. I got to make the best of this opportunity.

Speaker 1 And then, like, I kept coming, flying back and forth, you know, to come see Cam and to just get up. And then the kill Tony thing happened when I was there.
And it's just like everything was like

Speaker 1 off. But I mean, you wouldn't think that's when it gets easy, but that's when it gets harder because everybody's shooting at you then.
Right. Everybody wants to bury you when you go on stage.

Speaker 1 But I mean, that's where like the gang violence thing comes from.

Speaker 1 If we on stage, like say we on the same show and I and I deal with you, I'm like, gang violence, hey, it's for the kid real.

Speaker 1 I'm I'm about to go over here and destroy these people. You better be able to follow it.
You know, it's just like iron sharpening iron. You know what I mean? Just create your monsters, you know.

Speaker 1 Right. Right.
It depends on where you look at it. Or, you know, like, I believe in just murdering, you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Paid up.
Yeah. And for all my corporate listeners, he's not talking about like physically murdering.
Calm down. You know, calm down.
I can curse off. Yeah.
I should have. I should have act.

Speaker 1 Oh, you can say any,

Speaker 1 you can say any and everything you want. This is your world.

Speaker 1 You know, I still try to not get too crazy, you know, try to be somewhat professional.

Speaker 1 Everything is everything, man. So how did David Jolly get started?

Speaker 1 Like, like that essence, you know, on Mick Unplugged, we like to talk about your because, that thing that really gets you going, your real purpose, your real mission.

Speaker 1 What got David Jolly started in the game? I got a buddy of mine named D-Rug. He a rapper.
He's a comedian,

Speaker 1 like one of my best friends, you know. And he was about to do a show with these people called Tom and Dan and my boy Ross McCoy.
It was a local comedy show.

Speaker 1 I never did comedy, but I was always funny, you know, and I never knew where to start at. I never knew about none of that because I'm from Orlando.
So

Speaker 1 I found out once I went to the show.

Speaker 1 And I asked him beforehand, hey, can I get a little time? And Ross was like, nah, man, it's a real show. We don't letting you up here.
You didn't even come stink my stage up.

Speaker 1 But then when I got there, I had prepared, like, maybe he might let me on. I never really wrote any jokes.
I just wrote down some ideas. So

Speaker 1 when I got there, he was like, you know what? Just get up. So I got up.
It was really, really good.

Speaker 1 I asked him what to do next. And he said, you got to, you live.
This is your new life. You know, you do this every day.
And that's what I did. I just, I just stayed at it.
I stayed at it.

Speaker 1 I stayed at it. I stayed at it every day.
Horrible mics. There's five people in there.

Speaker 1 sometimes they'll be my favorite mics i still go to the mics i'll go from a show at the mothership and go to the creaking cave at midnight just to see if this new material work because i'm not going to do it at the mothership yet you know

Speaker 1 so so it's like just just going just go and go and go and go and go and it's just everything been falling into place this ain't no process that's happened overnight you know i'm at years

Speaker 1 but i always knew this was going to happen i don't know if it sounds arrogant or what however it sounds but in my brain when i tell myself i'm gonna do something it ain't no maybes it ain't none of that i don't use those that verbiage you know that you wouldn't have got on the first mic if you didn't see yourself doing yeah exactly and that's what i was drinking like i don't drink anymore you know it's been like almost 18 months now so you know i just when i when i when i went back home and I was kind of still like hey i'm happy like i was on kill tone y'all everybody know who i am and i was like man lock in it's time to go this is going to be the next step where your mama ain't got to work no more.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Lock in. It's time to go.
Forget all that drinking and all that nonsense that, because I used to work at hospitality, so it was second nature to drink, you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I had a drinking problem, though. I was like a real alcoholic.

Speaker 1 Real, yeah, like a real one. I weighed tables for

Speaker 1 a long time. I worked in, I worked in like construction type joint.
I used to drive, deliver drywall, operate heavy machinery, all all kinds of stuff, you know, just like a normal,

Speaker 1 normal dude, you know? Yeah, yeah. So what was the key to sobriety? And then the

Speaker 1 important part, the key to maintaining it, because you live in a world where that's what's going on. You work in an environment where they're giving you the vice right in front of you.

Speaker 1 I really don't live in this world, though, mentally. Like I'm usually not even here.
I could be in the same room with someone and not know nothing about what's going on.

Speaker 1 I'd be so much inside of my mind, you know? Hi, Morgan Freeman here.

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Speaker 2 because you have the power of choice when it comes to treatment. Atruvi is an old medicine used to treat adults with ATTR-CM to reduce death and hospitalization due to heart issues.

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It's time to get busy living.

Speaker 1 But on the next step, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 That's just how I operate. I got to be doing something towards my goal.
You know, because ain't nobody going to give it to you. So I'm going to just go take it.
That's how.

Speaker 1 So, so for you, it was literally, this is my goal. This is my mission.
In order to get to where I'm trying to go, drinking has to stop. That's pretty much how it works.

Speaker 1 It's always been fun my life, in my life, until it got to the point where it's like, now this is in front of you and you know this will ruin you because you got to do this all the time.

Speaker 1 Now you got to always be thinking about this. It's going to be people that come at you on the internet.

Speaker 1 It's going to be people that like just try to like you got to have the you got to have the sense to know all right let me just leave this situation alone.

Speaker 1 Because if you drinking, you might flip out on somebody. What if you beat somebody up? Now you don't nobody want to work with you.

Speaker 1 And I'm not when I was drinking, I wasn't an angry drunk. I was probably like the happiest guy in the world.
But at the same time, it wasn't fulfilling to 100% to get where I needed to be mentally.

Speaker 1 So whatever that was, I had to cut it off. Like I woke up July 5th, woke up July 5th, and I said, I ain't drinking no more because I got period of drunk on the fourth.
So I said, you know what?

Speaker 1 I'm done. I didn't necessarily have like the, like the

Speaker 1 shakes and all of that. But in the back of my mind, subliminally, I was like, I mean, subconsciously, I was like,

Speaker 1 all right, you know, you can't drink. And then my sec, my everyday process is, okay, let me get a drink.
So I would have to say, nope, what are you doing? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Because subconsciously, that's just what I did.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. And what I'm hearing, David, is you saying you also realize you were becoming a brand, right? A lot of people think that a brand is a logo.
right? No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 In 2024, 2025, you are a brand. Yeah.
And everything around your brand, especially again, you're on national stages, right? Cameras everywhere. Everybody in the audience has a cell phone now.

Speaker 1 Everybody on the sidewalk has a cell phone. People in the car beside you got a phone.
That phone is 24-7 live media now.

Speaker 1 People, you got to realize you are a brand and you have mastered that. David Jolly is a brand.
What I like about it is, especially being a part of the Kill Tony universe, is

Speaker 1 I'm never worried about getting canceled.

Speaker 1 Most of my subject matter is like, it's not cancelable. It's just from a different point of view.
Like I got all kinds of jokes. I got

Speaker 1 everything you name, but you can't be offended by it. Like I got a trans joke where like I tell, and if it's people, if it's homosexual people,

Speaker 1 it was been a trans woman. She was like six, eight, 240 in Atlanta.
I'm on stage and I'm thinking to myself, like, if you think I'm not telling this trans joke, you out of your mind.

Speaker 1 And then she laughed at it hysterically and was like, man, that's a good joke. So, I mean, I just want to be that person that like bring back real kind of, let people say what they want to say.

Speaker 1 How come most of the people offended, not even the people who we talking about?

Speaker 1 Bingo. I ain't seen not one Puerto Rican say nothing or question nothing when that situation happened with Tony.
Not one.

Speaker 1 Not one person.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't really want to make it a race issue. You know, it's just maybe it's just a cultural issue.
But in that case, the race.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, we care about everybody else and everybody else's feelings, right? Except we don't want to come home and talk about the real.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 black people, we want to talk about everybody else, like jokes, or everybody else could get it. Let one white dude say you ate some fried chicken.
Oh, you racist. No, that's prejudice.

Speaker 1 It's a big reverence.

Speaker 1 It's a stereotype that we use to make jokes about other people, but we might be worse than Jewish people

Speaker 1 in the tip of like, black, you can't say nothing about us, but we can say everything about everybody else. I don't care about no jokes.
If it's funny, if it ain't funny, I ain't gonna laugh.

Speaker 1 If it's funny, I'm gonna laugh.

Speaker 1 Agree. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 But we always got a defense mechanism up. Like everybody's against us unless we with our own people.
Yeah. And I'd say even other races the same way, right?

Speaker 1 I think the the world, to your point, needs to understand the difference between what's prejudice and what's

Speaker 1 exactly. We need to bring back Archie Bunker and George Jefferson.
We need a shit like that right now so we can realize like, hey, man,

Speaker 1 my dad said something like this. He don't mean nothing by it.
Archie Bunker was just dumb. George Jefferson was just dumb.
But that's the way that America thought.

Speaker 1 But we was okay with that because this is, we still got to live together.

Speaker 1 And you're always going to have extremes, right? You're always going to have that extreme that, yeah, they do hate insert whatever the race is.

Speaker 1 They do hate insert whatever the gender or non-gender is. You have the extremists, but that's the minority, right? Like that really is the minority.

Speaker 1 That hate came from a not knowing. It came from the same thing.
Like I'm 43 years old. You got to do this.
You got to, if I never did that, I've been started this journey way earlier.

Speaker 1 But the thing is, if I would have started it earlier, I would have died.

Speaker 1 Cause I'm pretty sure I would have got really, really famous and got and just did something. That would be my norm to be that way, you know, to just be like, no understanding, like I'm 30 years old.

Speaker 1 I got a couple of hundred million dollars, you know. I knew this process had to happen, but it happened when it needed to happen.
Yep. Yep.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Because you know, our parents told us, go to school, get a good job. And I could never really work for nobody.
Like I'll be working with somebody and it'll go on for a while.

Speaker 1 And as soon as they get comfortable, where they think they're going to say whatever they want to, or like, I've never had a boss in my life, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 I've worked for companies, but anytime you even insinuate that you got some type of boss complex, I'm going to straighten you right there. First of all, I don't have a boss.

Speaker 1 Second of all, I work for this company, and your title is this for this company, right? So you work for them too, right?

Speaker 1 Like, people hated me, man.

Speaker 1 It was just everything had to happen how it had to happen because i know i can't work for nobody i'll wake up and

Speaker 1 you out until you don't talk to me no more

Speaker 1 i might be like oh the oh i ain't sure

Speaker 1 but i love it man

Speaker 1 so so you got into the comedy game and and one of the questions i wanted to ask you specifically right again the genius of david jolly

Speaker 1 from telling a joke to actually writing a bit, right? Like, what was that transformation like from just, again, we're at the cookout.

Speaker 1 Everybody can be funny and tell a joke, but when you got to be on stage for 10, 15, 30 minutes when you're David Jolly doing 45 in an hour, like you got to be able to write a little bit too and connect the dots.

Speaker 1 Like what was that journey and transformation like for you? It wasn't ever hard because I got a buddy of mine named Carmen Ralon that gave me this book called The Comedy Bible. So I mean like

Speaker 1 premise set up punchline. I keep that in my mind, but a lot of the times I don't even write like that.
That's just the basic formula to go off of, you know, my mind like a computer.

Speaker 1 It's like a, you know, you know, like, I need some type of formula. Sometimes I could come with nothing.

Speaker 1 Like, sometimes I might just say something funny and I just take it to the stage and I riff on it a little bit. And then I try to build a structure off of that.

Speaker 1 Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I just.

Speaker 1 write out a whole joke word for word and I cut out like 80% of it and then that actually works you know yeah i mean but everybody has their own style of writing and you know what i mean like the more and more the blessing that i've had since being in austin is

Speaker 1 getting to be around comics that have been successful on this level for so much time and just the genuine love for comedy and just good people that they are you know the good people that they are they'll be like hey man you know you ever talk about this or like if you got any questions or hey, let's go on the road like that.

Speaker 1 Like, when Cam started doing comedy, because you know, I'm his mentor, you know, I really don't tell people that because I don't ever want to take away from his shine.

Speaker 1 But when he started doing it and the drive that he had, that brought back another level of hunger for me. Like, I was like, okay, let's go.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Because it was just like, if it was back, because most of the people in Orlando, you know, they just,

Speaker 1 they're hobbyists, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 1 They're competing with with each other i'm not competing with nobody but yesterday me you know what i mean yes sir we're all on the same team i ain't competing with you what am i competing with you for you know what i mean like you same place i'm in why would i compete with you when you you could tell me nothing about the next level

Speaker 1 that's it you know you know i mean it all depends on like the seriousness what do you see in something like it's

Speaker 1 I wouldn't go and start playing semi-pro football because I don't think I could do it. You know, and I don't love football that much.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? It's just about focus, man. Focus, locking in, focus, focus, focus.
Yep. That can take you so far in life.

Speaker 1 I'm not mad at the things that like the way I was raised and the way our elders told us how we should go about the next level, even though I wish I knew a little bit about this here.

Speaker 1 stuff that I'm finding out about now as to why this guy never worked in his life because he worked for himself.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? Like, so, you know, it is what it is. No.

Speaker 1 So you, you mastered the storytelling, and then that led you to

Speaker 1 the world that you're in now. And I know the story of David Jolly isn't even done, right? Because we're about to see so many amazing things that are happening.

Speaker 1 I'm putting it in the universe because I believe in you that much, man.

Speaker 1 Getting to kill Tony. How did that happen?

Speaker 1 Well, Cam got pulled out of the bucket, you know? He got pulled out of the bucket and then just everything just went crazy. So I went back to Orlando.

Speaker 1 And when I came back, because I was coming back to do spots at the mothership because I, you know, I was like in

Speaker 1 Adam, Adam Eager was like, hey, man, whenever you're in town, come and do spots. You know, so I was flying back like once a month, sometimes twice a month.

Speaker 1 The only reason why I was still in Orlando is because I had a lease and my son hadn't graduated from high school yet. So as soon as he graduated i i was gone you know so like

Speaker 1 what what was the question again

Speaker 1 kill tony yeah getting to kill tony um it was great man like everybody in there is just good people like just when we cam and then it like

Speaker 1 i just got an opportunity that's what i'm gonna say i ain't gonna get too much in there you know but it was it was great the opportunity that was presented to myself i just did what i had to do

Speaker 1 love it yeah love it it's a it's great man like if there's any comics watching this i tell you come to austin get away from your local scene because that same guy that's been doing that same thing for 25 years

Speaker 1 he may want you to succeed he may not want you to succeed some people just get to a point where they've been doing it so long they're just angry yeah and you got to get away from them people because they don't have no vision no more they just ready to die you know they're just going by the pace of day by day of this just day by day you know so if you come if you know you can make it, get away from your hometown.

Speaker 1 And it's not knocking your hometown because the people in Orlando love me. I'm born and raised there.

Speaker 1 I lived in Tampa for a while, Tallahassee, but I'm a Florida boy.

Speaker 1 The people in my city love me, but it's the people that's in your same profession that say that they love you, but then they really don't show it.

Speaker 1 I'm not mad at them. I never...
It might sound crazy, but even when I first started, I was looking past Orlando. Hi, Morgan Freeman here.

Speaker 2 I want to talk to you about a serious rare heart condition called ATTR cardiac amyloidosis or ATTR-CM.

Speaker 2 Now, I don't have the condition myself, but if you're living with ATTR-CM, it's important to know about treatment options like Atruvi, also known as Acoramidis, because you have the power of choice when it comes to treatment.

Speaker 2 Atruvi is an old medicine used to treat adults with ATTR-CM to to reduce death and hospitalization due to heart issues.

Speaker 2 Tell your doctor if you're pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding and about the medications you take. The most common side effects were mild and included diarrhea and abdominal pain.

Speaker 2 If you have ATT-R-C-M, talk to your cardiologist about Atruvia or visit atruby.com. That's A-T-T-R-U-B-Y.com to learn more.
It's time to get busy living.

Speaker 1 I never even even felt like I was a local comic.

Speaker 1 I never felt like,

Speaker 1 I mean, I have no beef with nobody. Everybody, I'm cool with everybody, but I just didn't want to follow y'all rules.
I'm going to do it my way.

Speaker 1 A unique one-of-world. Yeah.
I had like a little traction going on, building followers, doing these stupid videos that were like, I know you fucking lie. And it'll be like a crazy motherfucker.

Speaker 1 Then it'll be me like talking about them. So those are going viral.
But then once like this Austin situation turned out and I just, it's getting crazy, but in a good way.

Speaker 1 So let's go back to that viral moment, right? I teased it in the opener with the hashtag.

Speaker 1 How did you come up with that freaking concept, dude? Like,

Speaker 1 and now you're seeing other people starting to do the style that you did, right? Because nobody was doing the videos the way that you were. Now it's become a thing.

Speaker 1 right you mean with i know you lying well a lot of people make them now and i don't never say nothing I just whatever. You know, like how you'd be like some crazy stuff, then it'll cut away.

Speaker 1 And then it'll be me like, I know you fucking lying. Look at this.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 I just had to find something that would work because I know just the old school way of

Speaker 1 moving to New York and moving to L.A. and then you got to meet these people.
I want to go around everybody. I don't want to have to, I'm going to do the work.

Speaker 1 The work is going to is going to speak for itself, but i don't want

Speaker 1 how you feel about me to dictate my my career yeah no i'll i'll say it differently you wanted to work you just didn't have to stand in line you know what i mean like you have to stand in line

Speaker 1 somebody don't like me and then they like they they try to push somebody back like i've seen it happen i've seen it happen in comedy scenes where one person don't like this person

Speaker 1 And they'll just brush you off. You know? And it's like that person might not even bother nobody.
they just don't like that they're quiet. Yeah, that's crazy, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 But the hashtag and the video viral is crazy, still, some of my favorite things today. I'll go back and watch something you did eight, nine months ago because it's still relevant now, man.

Speaker 1 And, like, oh, again, about the first time I got on Kill Tony, that was, yeah, I think I only watched that like one time. I couldn't watch it, it was too cringe for me,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 it was just

Speaker 1 too much, you know. I mean, because that wasn't me.

Speaker 1 I mean, it was me at the time, and I'm a

Speaker 1 very fun, outgoing guy. Anybody know that I say whatever, I don't really care about your feelings, you know, because you forced me

Speaker 1 to this point. But that was just real.
I was sloppy drunk that day.

Speaker 1 I was sloppy,

Speaker 1 but still funny, and you were still you. You were still you.
I'll give you that. Yeah.
I actually fell asleep next door. And they were like, well, Jolly, where's Jolly? I'm at the bar.

Speaker 1 They woke me up. I'm running in the rain, like really stumbling in the rain.
Not really running, but you know, then the rest was history. They, they, they, they say, you're on.

Speaker 1 And my brain just say, showtime. Showtime.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes, sir. So, hey, man, like, you bless us with time.

Speaker 1 I know you're busy i want to go rap and fire with david jolly the show all right so from orlando what's your favorite restaurant food spot in orlando oh that's a good question flavors my boy jarry knows got a got a company called flavors yep i love him here oh you know about flavors yeah oh yeah he got he cook it all man good good food real good food yep Yep.

Speaker 1 Your favorite sports team, professional or college? Like, who is David's team? Orlando Magic and the Tailwind. No, I said sports team, not JV basketball.

Speaker 1 Hey, it's for you and the Sean the Harness. Fuck the Sean at Hornets.

Speaker 1 Hey, Iris Reckon better than y'all. Y'all are trash.

Speaker 1 You a Harness fan or you're a Lakers?

Speaker 1 No, I'm a Laker fan. I knew it.
I knew it.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 well, we better than the Lakers too. Y'all trash.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 This year, right now, right now, I can't even argue with you. I got to give it to you.
I mean, but I respect LeBron. I'm a LeBron fan.
I like the fact that he carries himself as a man.

Speaker 1 Everybody hates him and he don't have any scandals. He don't have nothing.
You don't even have a reason to not like the man, but that comes with fame. So whatever.
Yep. No, I'm there.

Speaker 1 Jordan's my goat, though. Jordan and Kenny Anderson are my guys.
So I'm always a bad man.

Speaker 1 Kenny Anderson is one of my mentors.

Speaker 1 Like, we saw every morning he sends me a message you play ball too in high school oh yeah i played basketball i played basketball football and baseball and in all three sports i wrote the bench

Speaker 1 you

Speaker 1 they said i pay me a scholarship for riding the bench

Speaker 1 i say nah man i ain't gonna take this one man it's all right There it is.

Speaker 1 And then you got the Buccaneers. You know, I'm from Florida, so you got to go with the Bucks, not the Dolphins.

Speaker 1 I don't like any of those teams. Well, you're gonna say the Cowboys? I hate them too.
So, I'm gonna tell you the team, but I'm gonna tell you it's because of family first.

Speaker 1 So, my uncle is in the hall of fame for the New England Patriots. So, I was born a Patriot fan.
I wasn't

Speaker 1 Brady, and then I started becoming a fan. Like, it was when they were terrible.
See, I respect back then. Yeah, I remember the 80s.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's when my uncle was there. I don't have one good year in the 80s, didn't they almost go to the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 They went to the Super Bowl 85 and lost to the bears walter payton ran for 8 million yards and didn't score a touchdown that game are you you from south carolina yes sir oh born and raised right there yes sir i think i might be i'm waiting on uh lean cure to hit me back but i'll be at the greenville south in greenville comedy zone

Speaker 1 hopefully april 6th i believe oh i'll be there and we'll we'll sell it out like i'll promote it

Speaker 1 will we get off send me your number i don't have your number i hit you up all the the time. You a good dude, bro.
You feel me? Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 You got to have like strong black men who focus on the same thing, you know, because it's a race issue, but it's always a race issue.

Speaker 1 And some of us can't change our minds to get away from stuff,

Speaker 1 like from what we just traditionally,

Speaker 1 traditionally been given, you know? Yep.

Speaker 1 I mean, it is what it is, but we'll break those curses. Yes, sir.
All right. Last question for David, or second to last question.

Speaker 1 Your top three favorite comedians of all time?

Speaker 1 Cam Patterson,

Speaker 1 David Jolly, and Kim Miller.

Speaker 1 Love it.

Speaker 1 Love it. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Love it. They're my first.
They're my favorite three L. Yeah, and Cam is a beast.
For those that don't know Cam, like Cam is a beast. Yeah, like.

Speaker 1 He talked about me a lot on like the podcast. I like it.
I just don't never want to

Speaker 1 get in in the way of his shine. You know, killing it right now.
And that's what that's what I'm up here with now.

Speaker 1 Like, either I'm doing my headlining dates, killers of kill Tony dates, or I just come with Cam on the road. Like, I don't have a weekend off until like January 23rd.

Speaker 1 And I'm probably going to try to fill that calendar. Like, I don't like sitting down.
I'd rather be on the road. Yeah.
And for those listening and watching, David is coming to a city near you.

Speaker 1 Like, I know, I'm actually, I'm going to Boston next weekend. And then you're in Boston two weekends after after that.

Speaker 1 So I'm going to let everybody know in Boston, like when I'm up there next weekend to make sure that they go check you out. That's crazy.
You're going to be there next weekend? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, send me your number because we're going to be at Lavs Boston anyway with Cam.

Speaker 1 Okay. So if you want some tickets, or just come ticket, yeah.
Yeah, we'll make that happen all day.

Speaker 1 I like it. Boston cool, man.
Yeah. I love Boston.
Yeah, it's dope. I'm up because I got to do Boston and I do Providence right the day before that.
Okay. Yeah, Providence, that's a real town.

Speaker 1 Yeah, in Rhode Island. Yeah, it's wow.
Yeah, it's pretty. It's different over there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Don't get, don't, uh, don't get the wrong idea about all that stuff up there. They get it down over there.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 Last question. Where can people follow and find you?

Speaker 1 Instagram is Mr. D Jolly.
uh or go to unclejolly.com and i got like everything going on in my life as far as like show dates and sitting near you.

Speaker 1 But Mr. D.
Jolly, follow that because I need some more followers, man.

Speaker 1 All right. It's going to be in the show notes, the description, everywhere.
Everybody go follow David. Like, I promise you,

Speaker 1 there are moments in the day where you just need a laugh or two or three.

Speaker 1 David's going to give it to you every day.

Speaker 1 And he's not even trying to give it to you. He's just going to be himself and you're going to say, damn, I needed that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, and it's funny to where when people can laugh at themselves, that's what I want to bring back. Nothing is off limits, you know?

Speaker 1 Like back in the days with like at the cookout, if you had a cousin that was a little special, what'd your auntie say? Sit your slow ass down.

Speaker 1 Sit your retarded ass down somewhere. You've been chopping around out here all goddamn day.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
For real. I love it.
Dave, well, I appreciate you taking some time, brother. You mean the world to me.
Can't wait to connect in person and break bread and just hang out, man.

Speaker 1 Appreciate that. Making much success to you and your podcast.
I hope it, well, I'm not hoping. It's going to go to the stars, you know.
You know what I mean? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 Before the moon, man, you know, we got to keep shooting. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. For all the listeners and viewers, remember, your because is your superpower.
Go unleash it.

Speaker 1 Thank you for tuning in to McUnplug. Keep pushing your limits, limits, embracing your purpose, and chasing greatness.
Until next time, stay unstoppable.